Fact check: Did a 101- year-old give birth to a child?

Again, we receive requests about an incredible story.

The American satirical website World News Daily Report reported on January 7, 2016, about an alleged “sensational case” in which a 101-year-old mother is said to have become a mother after a transplantation of ovarian tissue.

Because the procedure would have been illegal in Europe due to the patient’s old age and the associated risks, the “late mother” is said to have turned to a Turkish private clinic.

This is how the article looks:

Is this true? Is this even possible? Is the “oldest mother in the world” really 101 years old?

No, of course not.

Although they have been using the transplantation of ovarian tissue to help infertile women to have their desired child. Even women over 60 have given birth to children – however, in this case reproductive medicine would have reached its limits.

So how does the baby end up in the arms of the old woman?

In reality, the photograph, dating from March 2015, shows Rosa Camfield from Gilbert, Arizona, holding her newborn great-granddaughter in her arms, photographed by her granddaughter, the girl’s mother. [1], [2]

Camfield died shortly afterwards; the touching photo was shared a thousand times, also on Facebook [3], before it then underwent a bizarre reinterpretation in January 2016.

The website World News Daily Report, which is known for fake news and satire, had put the old woman into her virtual maternity bed without further ado and thus caused amazement, doubts and indignation on internet.

But neither “Anatolia Vertadella” nor the “monstrous intervention in nature” have a real background.

Only the high age of the deceased Rosa Camfield, the great-grandmother of the child, is correct.